Quoting: gardotd426This is nonsense and demonstrates that you have no idea what goes into anything to do with vkd3d-proton. And Joshua is a vkd3d-proton *and* DXVK developer, and knows infinitely more about this shit than you do.

In particular, he was involved with the creation of the vendor-neutral Vulkan ray tracing extension, redid Q2RTX to use the vendor-neutral Vulkan ray tracing extension, and... wrote an open source implementation of Vulkan ray tracing for AMD hardware, which AMD have failed to do themselves.

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Quoting: MohandevirIronburg Inventions didn't create back buttons, they just adapted something that was already used elsewhere.

Well, to be fair, an innovative arrangement of existing things is legit patent material, and Valve did try using buttons rather than paddles and found that it wasn't as good.

Oh well... Pattents...:sick:

Yep.

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Quoting: mphuZIn order for AMD to start working with Linux faster, they need motivation. And finance. Maybe if they were offered help, they would think about it.

Quoting: mphuZWhat is the point of this, if there were no and almost no games with RT on Linux?
What's the point of chasing a niche (at the moment) technology?

What you're saying here is that AMD are too poor and too incompetent to be able to follow standards in innovative graphics technology, which is a way harsher judgement than 3zekiel's (they just don't care very much) that you took exception to.

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Quoting: MohandevirWhat is specified in the pattent?

It's specifically having paddles on the back of a standard controller. The patent is here [External Link], for those that are interested.

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Quoting: 3zekielPlus, considering AMD did not deem necessary to proprely support VK ray tracing on Linux...

Nonsense. Who told you that?
It may take a lot more work than you think. Have patience.

Joshua Ashton [External Link]

It is really sad to see how little AMD cares about Linux as a platform for Vulkan.

On Linux, it took them 5 months since the ray-tracing spec-launch to be bothered to rebase and release their proprietary driver with ray-tracing support – and we have still yet to see their open-source variant, AMDVLK have any support.

On Windows, this was day 1.

Nvidia had day 1 Linux support, albeit in their beta driver. And they had day 1 support in their main driver when they released the vendor-specific one previously. Intel managed to get Linux support for Vulkan ray tracing before AMD, and they don't even have any ray tracing hardware.

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Quoting: HoolyWill DLSS work for titles that were written with DirectX and translated via DXVK/VKD3D?
Otherwise the amount of titles that will benefit from this is... limited.

That's exactly what this is for.

Native titles could already do it, but none of them did, since Nvidia included the libraries to access the functionality with their proprietary driver.

The new work includes a .dll file that Wine can use to provide those functions, which can be dropped automatically into any Wine prefix that wants to use it.

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Quoting: BielFPsShame that I'll never have a chance to even hold one in my hands. I don't know the details, is Valve really copied some patent protected project, or this is one of those "patent trolls" that worked in this case?

There isn't copying with patents: it just isn't a factor. A patent is saying "this person invented this thing and gets first dibs" even if someone else invents the same thing later. The trade off for getting first dibs is that you need to document exactly how it works (rather than keeping it secret) so that everyone else can use it once the first dibs period finishes.

That's the idea, anyway.

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Quoting: The_AquabatI don't get it why not on ALL polaris cards? after all a RX 480 is the same architecture as a RX 580. I suppose if they release the code this has great chances of being backported to older gpus.

Well, Joshua Ashton has just implemented Vulkan ray tracing [External Link] on cards that don't have the hardware for it, so who can say?

Get itch. Scratch itch.

Ah, Liam's got an article up about that, now.

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Apparently DLSS support is being included with Unity this year, too, which will make it easier for native games to make use of the native DLSS support provided by the proprietary driver. Assuming the Unity devs don't fumble their Linux support, of course.

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As far as I can tell, the demo claim originated with one guy in 2013 [External Link], based on some Xbox 360 sales data that wasn't at all normalised for budget, and hasn't been validated or replicated in the time since. He was explicitly going for the bilk money based on hype angle.

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